Baby is crying. 0 – 6 months.

All babies cry even if your friend tells you that her kids never cried (that’s a lie :) ). Baby can’t speak. Crying is his language. If you pull yourself togeather and understand this (in the middle of shouting) your life will get much easier.

            As the crying is babies language (especially when he is very small), there are many tones, volume levels and some action at the crying time. With time you will learn how to recognize if baby wants to eat, wants hugs, he is angry, diaper is wet or he just wants to cry :) .

            When baby is very small, only few days old I can understand your confusion and worry about baby’s crying. But usually he stops crying when you hug him. If he doesn’t, then you have to check the chain: maybe he’s hungry, diaper can be wet, maybe he has abdominal pain or he’s just angry with some of these things.

            Later baby will make his own eating regime. Afterwords you will understand that baby is hungry and now it is „lunch time” :). Approximately after a half an hour you should check your baby’s diaper. At this time babies usually „fill” their diapers :). If you do this at the time maybe you will avoid from another crying show.

            If you have fed him and diaper is dry, maybe there’s some pain which is disturbing the baby.

There can be abdominal pain if baby is under 3 months. Of course, you can’t be sure of that, but try to calm him. At first you can take off the diaper (maybe all of clothes off). Usually babies stop crying because they like to be naked (about 9 months baby lived in your belly without any clothing), it’s just natural. Leave him naked about half an hour, you should put him on his belly. Hug him if he starts crying, then put on his belly again. He will feel better even he spends only a few minutes on his belly.

Lying on belly is important because abdominal pain rises from belly bloating. Belly bloating comes from lack of enzymes (usually). When baby is just born, he has enzymes from you and they are more if you do breastfeeding. Time passes and baby starts to loose enzymes which he got from you. His own enzymes is just starting to form and they are not enough to digest the food. This happens between 2 and 4 months (fairly). You can do some exercises on the big fitness ball.

There can also be dairy intolerance. In severe cases also chicken and eggs. It is in case if you do breastfeeding. If not, maybe you should change baby milk producer. But these things you should discuss with your pediatrician.